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What is the action of digoxin?
It slows the heart rate making the heart more efficient.
What is digoxin used for?
Digoxin is the best drug for congestive cardiac failure. Digoxin has very unique mode of action. It takes less oxygen for heart to do the same amount of work. Alternately, your heart work more with the same amount of oxygen, when on digoxin.
Is digoxin used to relieve angina pain?
Digoxin belongs to a class of cardiovascular drugs known as cardiac glycosides. According to Drugs.com, a drug information website that provides peer-reviewed information to consumers, digoxin is used to treat heart failure and abnormal heart rhythms known as arrhythmias. Digoxin is also used to treat angina and can be used after a heart attack. Digoxin has several potential side effects.Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/180080-the-effects-of-digoxin/#ixzz2QQ0kne9W
How does digoxin affect your body?
Digoxin makes your body to work more in a given amount of oxygen or it make your heart use less oxygen for given amount of work.
What is digitalis or a drug called digoxin?
Digitalis has got digoxin and digitoxin in the extract of the plant Digitalis lanata. Digitoxin has got very long half life and should not be used in therapeutics. Digoxin is drug of therapeutic value. It is very good drug for congestive heart failure. Digoxin has very unique mode of action. It takes less oxygen for heart to do the same amount of work. Alternately, your heart work more with the same amount of oxygen, when on digoxin. You may give the loading dose of two tablets of 0.25 mg. Fallowed by one after say twelve hours. Then 3/4 tablet daily after 24 hours. When there is no urgency, you should give 3/4 tablet daily, from the begining. You may need to give potassium supplement in some, specially when the patient is taking no food for a day or two. With signs of toxic effects, you should stop the drug. The rule of thumb is 'Nausea'. When the patient feels like vomiting, he may be getting overdose of digoxin. Otherwise, there may be hypokalemia or low level of potassium. Most common cause for the same is no food intake or loose motion. If you continue to give digoxin, patient will go for vomiting. Natures way to get rid of digoxin. if you continue to give digoxin, you have serious side effects, like digoxin induced cardiac arrhythmias.
Is 57 beats per minute a good heart rate?
It depends on the age, health and activity you were doing when the pulse was taken. If sleeping or resting just before the pulse then it would be lower. If taking a heart medicine like Digitalis or Digoxin then the medicine is suppose to slow the heart rate so more blood will be pumped through he heart.
Will the color of your heart change?
by giving the person you like what he/she wants.. or giving flowers will be better.. the more you give everyday, the faster the color changes..
What are the Nursing considerations for digoxin?
1. Assess the patient's response to the digoxin by evaluating relief of symptoms such as dyspnea, orthopnea, crackles, hepatomegaly, and peripheral edema. 2. Monitor the patient for factors that increase the risk of toxicity: a. Decreased potassium level b. Use of meds that enhance the effects of digoxin such as oral antibiotics and cardiac drugs that slow AV conduction and slow heart rate c. Impaired renal function especially in patients 65 years and older 3. Before administering the drug, assess the patient's apical heart rate. If it below 60, the drug should be held. More importantly assess the PR interval for AV conduction blockage. 4. Monitor for GI side effects 5. Monitor for neurologic side effects. A classic symptom of digoxin toxicity is a yellow halo effect seen by the patient.
What does a depressed ST wave mean on a EKG?
The interpretation of depressed ST segments depend on the location, as well as the medical history. A list of causes, though, are: Ischemia (lack of oxygen to certain heart tissues) Myocardial infarction (heart attack) Hypokalemia (low potassium) Normal variant Enlargement of heart ventricles Medication effect of Digoxin and more...
What is more appreciated giving love heart or mind?
LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its important because that person can fell it and gain trust with you
Is digoxin a therapeutic drug?
Digoxin is the best drug for congestive heart failure.Traditionally the Digoxin comes with the packing of 0.25 mg in tablet form. The physicians have been trying to use the drugs from ages since it's discovery. The drug has been giving toxic effects. The physicians tried to give holiday on each Sunday. Then tried to add one more on Saturday, without much benefit. Ultimately the physician stop using the drug. The basic fault lies with the quantity of the drug in the tablet. This much quantity gives toxic effects. Physicians are unable to manage the problem and the drug is defamed. The correct dose should be 0.18 mg per tablet. You can give this much dose with out any toxic effects, that too daily, in most of the patients. Only thing is that the kidney functions should be normal. You may need to give potassium supplement in some, specially when the patient is taking no food for a day or two.
Why you must shake digoxin syrup before use?
Why did the patient shake digoxin Elixir before taking it?Read more: Why_did_the_patient_shake_digoxin_Elixir_before_taking_it
